Fedora 9 - No Sound - Audigy / On-Board Device

[nljam23]

Greetings All.

I've battled this problem all the way since Fedora Core 5 and can't seem to find the right answer for Fedora 9.

I have a PC with an onboard VIA sound device which is disabled in the BIOS (can't see it in Windows).

I also have an Audigy 2 Platinum PCI card installed (which works fine in Windows).

I was able to use the Soundcard detection tool in Fedora 8 to select the Audigy as the default playback device and it worked fine.

I performed a clean install of Fedora 9 and have not been able to get sound to work yet.

If I plug speakers into the onboard jacks I get sound from RhythmBox and the test sounds.

If I plug speakers into Audigy, no sound anywhere.

I've checked the settings in Volume Control and nothing is muted.

I've checked PulseAudio Volume Control and it shows the onboard sound device and not the Audigy card.

Can I safely remove PulseAudio to get this working?

[brebs]

The onboard audio can't be disabled in the BIOS if it's playing sound.

See ALSA wiki (http://alsa.opensrc.org/MultipleCards).

[nljam23]

I assure you, onboard audio is disabled in the BIOS. First thing I checked. This is a Compaq Presario SR1150NX which uses a modified ASUS board. I dual-boot Windows XP and Fedora 9. The onboard audio is not recognized in Windows and the Audigy works perfectly. Linux installs always pick up both the Audigy and the onboard sound. Invariably, Fedora defaults to onboard. This happened in Fedora 6, 7 and 8 and now 9. Previously I was able to get the Audigy to be recognized by using the soundcard detection tool. Now it appears that this applet is no longer available. Any idea which conf. file(s) in Fedora 9 dictate the default audio device?